The Dead Sea Scrolls at the Science Museum of Minnesota -- a Luther Seminary Connection

Around the Twin Cities, and no less here at Luther Seminary, anticipation has been running high

for the opening of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota.  Now that the exhibit is underway, you may be interested to know that the library and the archives each contributed an item from our collections to the exhibition.  No, it wasn’t a fragment of the scrolls themselves, although there are a few owned by several seminaries in the U.S. (See related news release by one of these institutions). Rather, along with the Scrolls, the Science Museum is interested in displaying examples of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic sacred texts that share roots in these ancient scrolls from the Judean desert.

For the library’s part, our donation consists of a notable example of an 18^th century Bible – a Baskerville Bible, so named from its printer, John Baskerville.  Baskerville made his reputation as an exceptionally talented printer, first with exquisite editions of the works of Virgil and Milton, and then, in 1763, of the Bible itself, which has been called one of the finest English Bibles ever produced.  The library’s copy is a later edition from 1772, printed in Birmingham, with 10 copper engraved plates, bound in morocco leather, with gilt spine and borders.  Baskerville was also a typographer and his name has been given to a family of typefaces he created characterized by their bold style.

 

So, when you go to the exhibit (and we hope you have plans to), in addition to the scrolls and the artifacts from the caves by the Dead Sea, be on the lookout for the Baskerville Bible.  We’re happy to share it on the occasion of this fascinating look into a past that continues to shape our present.

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For the library’s part, our donation consists of a notable example of an 18th century Bible – a Baskerville Bible, so named from its printer, John Baskerville. Baskerville made his reputation as an exceptionally talented printer, first with exquisite editions of the works of Virgil and Milton, and then, in 1763, of the Bible itself, which has been called one of the finest English Bibles ever produced.
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